Protected: How Georgia’s European Dream Turned Into a Nightmare
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Born to run (and return) – a conversation with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Pt. II
In the previous part of the interview, we followed Toomas Hendrik Ilves from his youth in the US to his work as a journalist in Munich, until he agreed to become Estonian ambassador to the…
A Lynx Off the Map – a conversation with Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Pt. I
In Europe, few people have had as much impact on tech governance and the integration of the Baltic countries as Toomas Hendrik Ilves, professor of international affairs, journalist, writer, ambassador, foreign minister and former president…
Pour faire le portrait de la MEP Loiseau
Continuing my quest for “cool people of the European Parliament”, I present you Nathalie Loiseau, former diplomat, former director of ENA, former French Minister for EU affairs and much more. Loiseau’s clear and direct communication style makes her a prominent figure in European politics; I had the great pleasure to learn about her inspiring life and ideas.
The Diplomacy of the (Olympic) Javelins – a conversation with Baiba Braže
It is quite rare to find ministers among the politicians who share my memes on social media; Baiba Braže, incumbent Latvian minister of foreign affairs (MFA) and former ambassador, is one of them, a sign that she has some sense of humor and a very direct communication style.
Kallas of Duty – a conversation with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs
Kaja Kallas has been high on my list of cool people to meet for a couple of years. Not only did she inspire lots of memes, but she also retweeted some of them when she was Prime Minister of Estonia. It felt very natural to talk to her: she has a very direct communication style and a great sense of humour, as the genuine and colorful pictures on her social media accounts show.
Of Dinosaurs, Stars and Radio Receivers, a conversation with Andrius Kubilius
Defence and Space are very hot topics these days; at EU level they are energetically managed by Andrius Kubilius, a sixty-eight years old physicist and former Prime Minister of Lithuania. I had the pleasure to sit down with him and talk about his life and experiences.
The nitrogen reVolt, decarbonizing ammonia production in the EU
At DG MEME we keep hearing that the EU does not invest in research and that we lose our best minds to other continents. So I decided to go out and check if this is really the case; and what we could do to improve the situation. I will collect these articles in EUREKA (European Union’s Research, Enterprise, and Knowledge Aces), a new section of the website. For this first article, I was looking for a start-up that is:
- EU-based, with an international team
- contributing to the green transition
- run by scientists who studied abroad but came back to Europe
And that’s how I met Suzanne and Mattia, the two co-founders of NitroVolt, a Danish start-up that is revolutionizing the ammonia production.
The EU Atomic Bomb
Have you ever had that feeling of living in a continent that is not entirely ruled by insane people? Cool, then you’re probably in Europe, in Australia or in Antarctica.
Elections on thin ice – a Journey to Greenland, the Outpost of Democracy
I started reading about Greenland after it made the headlines a few months ago, and I found it very fascinating: it is one of the biggest countries in the world, but it has less than 57,000 inhabitants; Greenlanders are EU citizens through their Danish nationality, even if Greenland left the European Economic Community in 1985, partly because of concerns over fishing rights; Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and it is on its way to independence since 1979, even though only a few of the political and legal competences have been taken over by the Greenlandic government from Denmark.
